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In a long career of sharing his passion for films with Connecticut audiences, one moment stands out for Arnold Gorlick.
Madison Art Cinemas, the two-screen movie theater Gorlick opened 17 years ago on Boston Post Road in Madison, has a recorded line with...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — You’re worried about the next president. I’m here to change the subject. But only a little.
That next U.S. president, looking out at Washington, D.C., on Inauguration Day Jan. 20, will see a different city from the one that...

In 1979, someone in Indiana tried to have Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar" banned, saying the book "openly rejects traditional marriage and motherhood."
In 1998, a Californian tried to ban J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the...

The HartBeat goes on. Fifteen years after it was founded, HartBeat Ensemble's pulse is felt throughout the city.
The politically aware, community-conscious theater troupe marks its decade-and-a-half anniversary with a party Sunday afternoon at Black-eyed...

One hundred fifty years ago, on June 30, 1866, Connecticut became the first state in the union to ratify the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which granted African Americans the essential legal rights of due process and equal protection. This...

President Barack Obama was flying over Los Angeles in June as he listened to the first accounts from a courtroom in Charleston, South Carolina, where family members of nine dead parishioners who were gunned down at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal...

A philosopher and scientist, the author of a biography about Joan of Arc, a scholar of literary history and a biographer of actor Bill Murray will give talks, each beginning at 7 p.m., at the Mark Twain House & Museum, 351 Farmington Ave., Hartford....

Adele Morales Mailer, an actress and artist who studied under Lee Strasberg and Hans Hoffman, but found unwanted fame as the stabbing victim of her then-husband, Norman Mailer, died Sunday at age 90 at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
The cause was...

Adele Morales Mailer, an actress and artist who studied under Lee Strasberg and Hans Hoffman, but found unwanted fame as the stabbing victim of her then-husband Norman Mailer, died Sunday at age 90 at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
The cause was...

James Baldwin is an icon of the Civil Rights movement, and a film screening at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art pays homage to him.
"James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket" has no narration but has Baldwin speaking on subjects that meant...

On May 24, 1963 then-U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy met with Lena Horne, Harry Belafonte, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin and other leading African American figures about the civil rights movement — and got an earful.
That scene was the...

What next?
The New Yorker without cartoons?
Illinois politics without corruption?
The world is an increasingly wild and ever-changing place and we understandably become comfortable with — cling fast to — certain things and we expect them to remain.
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Jimmy Mac recalled his age with a squint and a wince. Forty-six, he said after a pained calculation, the kind of hesitation that suggests lately he has to remember each time he is asked and would rather not remind himself. His hair is sort of brownish,...

The art collection of celebrated writer and civil rights activist Maya Angelou sold for nearly $1.3 million on Tuesday. A painted story quilt that hung in Angelou's Harlem home and was commissioned by Oprah Winfrey for Angelou's 61st birthday brought...

A lot of good wide-release movies are coming in the next few months: "Black Mass," "Steve Jobs," "The Martian," "Bridge of Spies" and "The Peanuts Movie," among others. But sometimes you just want to watch...

Writer E.L. Doctorow, who wryly reimagined the American experience in such novels as "Ragtime" and "The March" and applied its lessons to the past and future in fiction and nonfiction, has died. He was 84.
His son, Richard Doctorow,...

Maureen Anderman will star in the "world premiere preview" of A.R. Gurney's "Love & Money" at the Westport Country Playhouse. The show runs July 21 to Aug. 8 and is staged by the theater's artistic director and frequent Gurney...

There was a time during the early days of Long Wharf Theatre when Robert Brustein, Yale Repertory Theatre's artistic director, was eyeing a take-over of the young theater company on the outskirts of New Haven run by some former School of Drama...

This is a transcript of President Obama's remarks as delivered on the 50th anniversary of the "Bloody Sunday' march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.
Audience: We love you, President Obama!
The President: Well, you know I love...